Comment by NoraCodes
2 years ago
People are allowed to write fiction. The page is clearly labelled as such (the fourth word on the page is "fiction"!) and qntm is a relatively well-known fiction author. If anything, posting it to HN is the issue.
2 years ago
People are allowed to write fiction. The page is clearly labelled as such (the fourth word on the page is "fiction"!) and qntm is a relatively well-known fiction author. If anything, posting it to HN is the issue.
Is fiction not allowed on HN?
It's not disallowed, but it has never been common or very popular here.
I'd thought that Usula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" might have been an exception, but though it's had nine submissions, it's only ever earned single-digit votes, and a single comment:
<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>
(Searching specifically for fiction is something of a challenge, I'm trying a few different queries as they occur to me.)
I suspect both length and copyright limitations work against fiction submissions generally.
Only hard sci-fi.